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If you increase the quantity of money, you bring about the lowering of the purchasing power of the monetary unit.
Society is best served when the means of production are in the possession of those who know how to use them best.
Capitalism gave the world what it needed, a higher standard of living for a steadily increasing number of people.
In all countries with a settled bureaucracy people used to say: The cabinets come and go, but the bureaus remain.
Where there is no market economy, the best intentioned provisions of constitutions and laws remain a dead letter.
Modern society, based as it is on the division of labor, can be preserved only under conditions of lasting peace.
Nothing is more important than the formation of fictional concepts, which teach us at last to understand our own.
The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets.
God is identical with His attributes, so that it may be said that He is the knowledge, the knower, and the known.
It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men, but to defend them negligently is nothing short of criminal.
It is of no avail to know what is about to happen; for it is a sad thing to be grieved when grief can do no good.
It is a great proof of talents to be able to recall the mind from the senses, and to separate thought from habit.
For nothing is more commendable, nothing more becoming in a preeminently great man than courtesy and forbearance.
O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!
It occurred to me that I had the duty to give society something in exchange for the free education I was getting.
Those conspiracies that are too incredible to be believed, are by the same right, those which most often succeed.
Canadians are the people who learned to live without the bold accents of the natural ego-trippers of other lands.
Most clear writing is a sign that there is no exploration going on. Clear prose indicates the absence of thought.
If it is right for me, it is right. It is possible that it is wrong for others: let them take care of themselves!
The arts, it has been said, cannot change the world, but they may change human beings who might change the world.
Do not think that one has to be sad in order to be militant, even though the thing one is fighting is abominable.
The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.
Against the disease of writing one must take special precautions, since it is a dangerous and contagious disease.
Christianity is our foe. If animal rights is to succeed, we must destroy the Judeo-Christian religious tradition.
Science does not stand still, and neither does philosophy, although the latter has a tendency to walk in circles.
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
Conversion is not implanting eyes, for they exist already; but giving them a right direction, which they have not
The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.
Man is the measure of all things, of the reality of those which are, and of the unreality of those which are not.
Man is the measure of all things, of things that are that they are, and of things that are not that they are not.
Do we need more laws? God forbid! We need more righteousness, more freedom, and more godly men -- and fewer laws.
We cannot be too energetic in reminding our nihilists and positivists that this is a world of action and history.
The future of mankind, for the socialist, is simple: pull down the existing order and allow the future to emerge.
Like adverts, today's works of art aim to create a brand, even if they have no product to sell except themselves.
To eat, to speak, to sing (need we add: to kiss?) are operations which have the same site of the body for origin.
Anthroposophy is a path of knowledge, to guide the Spiritual in the human being to the Spiritual in the universe.
When we project the specific organization of the human body into the space outside it, then we have architecture.
Anger, though concealed, is betrayed by the countenance. ?That anger is not warrantable which hath seen two suns.
Before old age I took care to live well; in old age I take care to die well; but to die well is to die willingly.
The next time anyone asks you "What is Bertrand Russell's philosophy?" the correct answer is "What year, please?"
Education-whether its object be children or adults, individuals or an entire people-consists in creating motives.
Improve yourself by other men's writings thus attaining effortlessly what they acquired through great difficulty.
It is not difficult to avoid death. It is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.
The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is better? Only God knows.
To grumble about the world and its unhappiness is always easier than to beat one's breast and groan over oneself.
To pace about, looking to obtain status, looking to attain 'importance' - I can think of nothing more ridiculous.
Whoever has the world's treasures has them no matter how he got them. In the world of the spirit it is otherwise.
Love is the keynote, Joy is the music, Knowledge is the performer, the Infinite All is the composer and audience.
That within us which seeks to know and to progress is not the mind but something behind it which makes use of it.
Just as every drop of the ocean carries the taste of the ocean, so does every moment carry the taste of eternity.